On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:52 PM, John Peterson <jwpeter...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:33 PM, John Peterson <jwpeter...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Roy Stogner <royst...@ices.utexas.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 28 Oct 2015, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311) wrote:
>>>
>>> >> On Oct 28, 2015, at 11:51 AM, John Peterson <jwpeter...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> libmesh-0.9.4 was tagged on Feb 19, 2015, while PETSc 3.5.4 came out
>>> in May
>>> >> 23, 2015, so it's actually a nice surprise that this configuration
>>> actually
>>> >> compiles...
>>> >
>>> > Definitely overdue. Anything in work we need to clean up first?
>>> Certainly we'll look at the performance regression just pointed out...
>>>
>>> Once the performance regression is fixed and the fixes for AMR on
>>> multi-dimensional meshes are committed (which ought to be this
>>> afternoon for both) we ought to be in good shape, IMHO.
>>>
>>> But man, wasn't your newest baby born like three days ago?  I can see
>>> how that might get you thinking about "new releases", but you can let
>>> John and I handle it this time.  ;-)
>>>
>>> If you want to be all managerial, you can be the one to decide whether
>>> we christen it 0.9.5 or 1.0.0.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, we should definitely make another release soon.  Once the
>> performance regression fix is merged, we can start an 0.9.5 branch with
>> relevant updates to the NEWS file and the changes to configure.ac
>> necessary to update the version.
>>
>> This branch can live for a while and have bugfixes cherry-picked over
>> from master, but no new features will be added.  Then once the final 0.9.5
>> is tagged, we'll merge the 0.9.5 branch back in to master like we did for
>> 0.9.4 (see d1b1724), as that seemed to work pretty well...
>>
>
> Oh yeah, I'd also like to enhance the strip_dup_libs.pl script to shuffle
> /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib (anything in /usr basically?) to the end of
> list of library paths before the next release.  It may just be me, but it
> feels like there are a lot more people experiencing issues with this
> lately...
>

The strip_dup_libs.pl fix has been merged, and I also started an 0.9.5
branch with stuff for the next release.

For some historical perspective, I also dug some of the older release dates
out of the SVN archive and compiled them here:
https://github.com/libMesh/libmesh/wiki/libMesh-release-history

-- 
John
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